Retail Blu-ray movie disc suddenly unreadable

[DVD Phreak]

I bought The Descent Blu-ray by Lionsgate in '07, played it twice, kept it in a closed cabinet, then last month I tried to play it again and it wouldn't play - on all my players, the same players that could play it 3 years ago. The disc was scratchless, spotless, looked brand new. My set top players and computer drives seemed to see it as a blank disc.

I would expect low-quality DVD+Rs or BD-Rs to behave like this. I've never seen a store-bought retail disc (CD, VCD, DVD, BD) do this. How could a pressed, retail disc deteriorate to nothingness just like that? Has this happened to anyone?

[GunZenBomZ]

A friend of mine had a disc from the BBC planet earth go all gooey, inside the layers like a virus in a way. They replaced it but I'd never seen a well kept disc go so strange. It's good that you raise awareness.

Offer to swap the disc for a working one, it should raise interest as long as its undamaged. Try it at another premises also?

[Clark Kent]

Select BDs that were pressed early in the format's lifespan have shown a troubling tendency to stop working. I have seen reports on another forum that certain Fox discs have just stopped being readable by any player. The problem is not widespread, but clearly exists on some level.

[Dwayne]

Originally Posted by DVD Phreak

I bought The Descent Blu-ray by Lionsgate in '07, played it twice, kept it in a closed cabinet, then last month I tried to play it again and it wouldn't play - on all my players, the same players that could play it 3 years ago. The disc was scratchless, spotless, looked brand new. My set top players and computer drives seemed to see it as a blank disc.

I would expect low-quality DVD+Rs or BD-Rs to behave like this. I've never seen a store-bought retail disc (CD, VCD, DVD, BD) do this. How could a pressed, retail disc deteriorate to nothingness just like that? Has this happened to anyone?

This is starting to happen alot. I own 4 BD stand alone players and own 5 LIONSGATE older BD movies that once played in all the players and now will not play at all in any " CANNOT READ DISC". Bought a new SONY BD 570 and all the movies played fine???????????? They still have alot of work to do on this format but it is very frustrating when crap like this happens and nobody can tell you why and how to fix the problem. My BD disc are spotless.

[blufellas]

My Reservoir Dogs BD will play on my PS3, but not on my BDs players.

[Twitch9]

I had this problem with my godfather 2 disc, but after rebooting my player everything worked find, it freaked me out i thought i would have to replace the player or the disc.

[Dwayne]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Select BDs that were pressed early in the format's lifespan have shown a troubling tendency to stop working. I have seen reports on another forum that certain Fox discs have just stopped being readable by any player. The problem is not widespread, but clearly exists on some level.

The problem seems pretty widespread to me. Every day on this website you will find a forum regarding why some BD title will not play on certain players. There is no excuse for movies that once played on a player and now does not. Spotless BD disc and current firmware upgrades should keep this from happening BUT IT DONT!!!!!!!!! I love this format but will be glad when they can figure this crap out. Very frustrating because customer service experts from all the big multi billion dollar companies that makes these products cannot tell you why it happens or how to repair it. Like I said before I love the BLU-RAY format but it is still new and has a long way to go to get where it needs to be.